Method and apparatus for data augmentation

ABSTRACT

Disclosed herein is a method for data augmentation, which includes pretraining latent variables using first data corresponding to target speech and second data corresponding to general speech, training data augmentation parameters by receiving the first data and the second data as input, and augmenting target data using the first data and the second data through the pretrained latent variables and the trained parameters.

CROSS REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION

This application claims the benefit of Korean Patent Application No.10-2021-0088496, filed Jul. 6, 2021, which is hereby incorporated byreference in its entirety into this application.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Technical Field

The present invention relates generally to sparse-data augmentationtechnology through end-to-end learning for attributedisentanglement-generation.

More particularly, the present invention relates to sparse-dataaugmentation technology based on substitution of latent variables ofsparse data and general data.

2. Description of the Related Art

These days, continually advanced speech recognition technology is beingapplied to various fields, and service based thereon is being provided.

An acoustic model used for a speech recognition service is expected toexhibit optimal performance when the acoustic model is generated bybeing trained using a large amount of data matching the phoneticcharacteristics of a speaker using the service and noise and channelenvironments.

However, according to the speech recognition service, there may belimitations on collection of a large amount of speech data. For example,in the case of non-native speech recognition, it is difficult to collecta large amount of speech data for the corresponding service due to thelimited number of non-native speakers compared to native speakers, andin the case of call-center recording speech recognition, there may belimitations on collection of a large amount of speech data due toproblems related to personal information security.

The present invention is for a speech recognition service in which it isdifficult to collect a large amount of data matching the phoneticcharacteristics of a speaker using the service and noise and channelenvironments, as in the above-described cases, and relates to a methodfor augmenting training data matching the acoustic characteristics ofthe service and noise and channel environments by using speech data in adomain in which a large amount of speech data can be acquired.

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-   (Patent Document 1) Korean Patent Application Publication No.    10-2019-0106861, titled “Artificial Intelligence apparatus for    generating training data, Artificial Intelligence server, and method    for the same”.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

An object of the present invention is to generate data in a sparse datadomain, in which it is difficult to collect speech data, throughend-to-end learning for attribute disentanglement-generation.

Another object of the present invention is to improve the performance ofspeech recognition through data augmentation for a service in which itis difficult to collect a large amount of speech data.

In order to accomplish the above objects, a method for data augmentationaccording to an embodiment of the present invention includes pretraininglatent variables using first data corresponding to target speech andsecond data corresponding to general speech, training data augmentationparameters by receiving the first data and the second data as input, andaugmenting target data using the first data and the second data throughthe pretrained latent variables and the trained parameters.

Here, pretraining the latent variables may include inferring, by theencoder of a variational autoencoder, latent variables using the firstdata and the second data and performing, by the decoder of thevariational autoencoder, training so as to generate input data byreceiving the latent variables as input.

Here, the latent variables may include a first latent variablecorresponding to content attributes of speech data and a second latentvariable corresponding to environment information of speech data.

Here, training the data augmentation parameters may comprise performingtraining using a structure in which a generative adversarial network isadded to the variational autoencoder.

Here, training the data augmentation parameters may include generatingfirst output through the variational autoencoder by receiving the firstdata as input, generating second output through the decoder by receivingthe second latent variable corresponding to the first data and the firstlatent variable corresponding to the second data, and differentiating,by a discriminator, the first output and the second output from eachother.

Here, augmenting the target data may comprise augmenting the target datathrough the decoder by receiving the second latent variablecorresponding to the first data and the first latent variablecorresponding to the second data.

Here, training the data augmentation parameters may comprise trainingthe parameters using a first loss function corresponding to the encoder,a second loss function corresponding to the decoder, and a third lossfunction corresponding to the discriminator.

Here, the parameters may include a first parameter corresponding to theencoder, a second parameter corresponding to the decoder, and a thirdparameter corresponding to the discriminator.

Here, the environment information of the speech data may includeinformation about at least one of a channel, noise, an accent, a tone, arhythm, and a speech tempo of a speaker.

Also, in order to accomplish the above objects, an apparatus for dataaugmentation according to an embodiment of the present inventionincludes one or more processors and executable memory for storing atleast one program executed by the one or more processors. The at leastone program may pretrain latent variables using first data correspondingto target speech and second data corresponding to general speech, traindata augmentation parameters by receiving the first data and the seconddata as input, and augment target data using the first data and thesecond data through the pretrained latent variables and the trainedparameters.

Here, the at least one program may perform training such that theencoder of a variational autoencoder infers latent variables using thefirst data and the second data and such that the decoder of thevariational autoencoder generates input data by receiving the latentvariables as input.

Here, the latent variables may include a first latent variablecorresponding to content attributes of speech data and a second latentvariable corresponding to environment information of speech data.

Here, the at least one program may train the parameters using astructure in which a generative adversarial network is added to thevariational autoencoder.

Here, the at least one program may train the parameters by generatingfirst output through the variational autoencoder receiving the firstdata as input, generating second output through the decoder receivingthe second latent variable corresponding to the first data and the firstlatent variable corresponding to the second data, and making adiscriminator differentiate between the first output and the secondoutput.

Here, the at least one program may augment the target data through thedecoder by receiving the second latent variable corresponding to thefirst data and the first latent variable corresponding to the seconddata as input.

Here, the at least one program may train the parameters using a firstloss function corresponding to the encoder, a second loss functioncorresponding to the decoder, and a third loss function corresponding tothe discriminator.

Here, the parameters may include a first parameter corresponding to theencoder, a second parameter corresponding to the decoder, and a thirdparameter corresponding to the discriminator.

Here, the environment information of the speech data may includeinformation about at least one of a channel, noise, an accent, a tone, arhythm, and a speech tempo of a speaker.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

The above and other objects, features, and advantages of the presentinvention will be more clearly understood from the following detaileddescription taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, inwhich:

FIG. 1 is a flowchart illustrating a method for data augmentationaccording to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 is a view conceptually illustrating a pretraining step in amethod for data augmentation according to an embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 3 is a view conceptually illustrating a training step in a methodfor data augmentation according to an embodiment of the presentinvention;

FIG. 4 is pseudocode illustrating a training process of the presentinvention;

FIG. 5 is a view conceptually illustrating a data augmentation step in amethod for data augmentation according to an embodiment of the presentinvention; and

FIG. 6 is a view illustrating the configuration of a computer systemaccording to an embodiment.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS

The advantages and features of the present invention and methods ofachieving the same will be apparent from the exemplary embodiments to bedescribed below in more detail with reference to the accompanyingdrawings. However, it should be noted that the present invention is notlimited to the following exemplary embodiments, and may be implementedin various forms. Accordingly, the exemplary embodiments are providedonly to disclose the present invention and to let those skilled in theart know the category of the present invention, and the presentinvention is to be defined based only on the claims. The same referencenumerals or the same reference designators denote the same elementsthroughout the specification.

It will be understood that, although the terms “first,” “second,” etc.may be used herein to describe various elements, these elements are notintended to be limited by these terms. These terms are only used todistinguish one element from another element. For example, a firstelement discussed below could be referred to as a second element withoutdeparting from the technical spirit of the present invention.

The terms used herein are for the purpose of describing particularembodiments only, and are not intended to limit the present invention.As used herein, the singular forms are intended to include the pluralforms as well, unless the context clearly indicates otherwise. It willbe further understood that the terms “comprises,” “comprising,”,“includes” and/or “including,” when used herein, specify the presence ofstated features, integers, steps, operations, elements, and/orcomponents, but do not preclude the presence or addition of one or moreother features, integers, steps, operations, elements, components,and/or groups thereof.

Unless differently defined, all terms used herein, including technicalor scientific terms, have the same meanings as terms generallyunderstood by those skilled in the art to which the present inventionpertains. Terms identical to those defined in generally useddictionaries should be interpreted as having meanings identical tocontextual meanings of the related art, and are not to be interpreted ashaving ideal or excessively formal meanings unless they are definitivelydefined in the present specification.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described indetail with reference to the accompanying drawings. In the followingdescription of the present invention, the same reference numerals areused to designate the same or similar elements throughout the drawings,and repeated descriptions of the same components will be omitted.

FIG. 1 is a flowchart illustrating a method for data augmentationaccording to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1 , in the method for data augmentation for a sparsedata domain, performed by a data augmentation apparatus, pretraining forlatent variables is performed using target speech data and generalspeech data at step S110.

Here, pretraining for the latent variables at step S110 may be performedusing a Variational Auto-Encoder (VAE) structure.

The VAE is a generative model, and a generative model is a model thatgenerates new data using a value that is sampled in the samedistribution as the actual distribution of training data when thetraining data is given.

Here, pretraining for the latent variables at step S110 may include astep in which the encoder of the VAE receives first data correspondingto target speech data and second data corresponding to general speechand infers latent variables and a step in which the decoder of the VAEreceives the latent variables and performs training so as to generatedata similar to the input data.

Here, the latent variables may include a first latent variablecorresponding to utterance content attributes of speech data and asecond latent variable corresponding to an utterance environment andspecific information pertaining to a speaker.

More specifically, there may be attributes corresponding to the entireduration of the corresponding utterance, such as channel and noiseenvironments and the characteristics of a speaker, and attributescorresponding to a short duration, which change over time during acorresponding utterance, such as a phone sequence. The latent variablesmay be inferred such that these attributes are disentangled.

Subsequently, data augmentation parameters are trained at step S120using the first data and the second data.

Here, training the data augmentation parameters at step S120 may beperformed using a structure in which a generative adversarial network isadded to the VAE.

Specifically, first output is generated using the VAE based on thepretraining result by receiving the first data, second output isgenerated using the latent variables corresponding to content, among thelatent variables of the second data, and using the latent variablescorresponding to environment information, among the latent variables ofthe first data, and a discriminator may be trained to differentiatebetween the first output and the second output.

A generative adversarial network is an Artificial Intelligence (AI)algorithm used for unsupervised learning, and may be implemented usingtwo neural network systems that compete with each other in a zero-sumgame. That is, a generator and a discriminator compete with each other,and training is performed so that each improves the performance of theother.

Here, according to the characteristics of the generative adversarialnetwork, the generator is trained so as to generate second outputsimilarly to the first output, and the discriminator is trained so as tomore clearly differentiate between the first output and the secondoutput.

Here, training the parameters may be performed using a first lossfunction corresponding to the encoder of the VAE, a second loss functioncorresponding to the decoder of the VAE, and a third loss functioncorresponding to the discriminator.

That is, the differential value of the parameters is calculated based onthe values of the first to third loss functions, and the process ofupdating the parameters is repeated, whereby training may be performed.

Here, a stochastic gradient descent algorithm may be used for theprocess of updating the parameters, and various other algorithms forupdating the parameters may be used.

Here, the parameters may include a first parameter corresponding to theencoder of the VAE, a second parameter corresponding to the decoder ofthe VAE, and a third parameter corresponding to the discriminator.

Subsequently, target data is augmented at step S130 using the first dataand the second data based on the pretraining and training results.

That is, target data is augmented using the VAE structure that goesthrough the pretraining and training steps.

Here, augmenting the target data at step S130 may comprise augmentingthe target data using the latent variable corresponding to environmentinformation in the target data and the latent variable corresponding tocontent attributes in general data.

Here, the environment information may include information such as anaccent, a tone, a rhythm, a speech tempo, and the like.

Data is generated as described above, whereby a large amount of targetdata for training, which is difficult to collect, may be generated.

FIG. 2 is a view conceptually illustrating a pretraining step in amethod for data augmentation according to an embodiment of the presentinvention.

FIG. 2 illustrates a pretraining step in the method for augmenting datain a sparse data domain using a variational autoencoder (VAE) structure.

A target domain speech DB 10 of a target task, such as a non-nativespeech DB and a call center recording DB, and a large-capacity speech DB20 of a general domain, such as a native speech DB and a broadcastspeech DB, are input to the VAE, and latent variables havingdisentangled attributes may be learned.

Here, a single mini-batch is formed by sampling data respectively fromthe target domain speech DB 10 of the target task and the large-capacityspeech DB 20 of the general domain, and training may be performed.

The VAE is a generative model, and a generative model is a model thatgenerates new data using a value that is sampled in the samedistribution as the actual distribution of training data when thetraining data is given.

Here, the attributes may include attributes pertaining to the entireduration of the corresponding utterance, such as channel and noiseenvironments and the characteristics of a speaker, and attributespertaining to a short duration, which change over time during thecorresponding utterance, such as a phone sequence.

The latent variable output from the encoder 210 of the VAE may beconfigured as the addition of Z₂, which is a latent variable dependenton the entire duration of the corresponding utterance, and Z₁, which isa latent variable for modeling a residual attribute having dependencebased on which the corresponding utterance and another utterance are notdifferentiated.

The encoder 210 infers the latent variables Z₁ and Z₂, the attributes ofwhich are disentangled. Then, training is performed such that thedecoder 220 receiving the latent variables Z₁+Z₂ having the disentangledattributes generates the original input speech, whereby the latentvariables having the disentangled attributes may be learned using anunsupervised learning method based on large amounts of speech data.

FIG. 3 is a view conceptually illustrating a training step of a methodfor data augmentation according to an embodiment of the presentinvention.

FIG. 3 illustrates the training step in the method for augmenting datain a sparse data domain using end-to-end learning for attributedisentanglement-generation.

The structure illustrated in FIG. 3 is formed by adding a generativeadversarial network to a variational autoencoder (VAE) structure forgenerating latent variables.

That is, the decoder 320 of the VAE functions as the generator of thegenerative adversarial network, and a discriminator is added to thestructure.

In the network structure in FIG. 3 , the discriminator 330 functions todifferentiate between a speech signal generated by the VAE to which thetarget domain speech DB 10 of the target task is input and a speechsignal augmented by the generator to which the latent variables Z₁+Z₂having the disentangled attributes are input. Here, the latent variablesZ₁+Z₂ having the disentangled attributes are acquired throughsubstitution with the content attribute Z₁ of the general domain speechDB 20 and the environment and speaker attributes Z₂ of the target domainspeech DB, which are to be described later with reference to FIG. 4 .

The loss function of the generative adversarial network in which thedecoder 320 of the VAE structure functions as a generator and in whichthe discriminator 330 is added is as shown in Equation (1) below.

$\begin{matrix}{{\mathcal{L}_{disc}( {X_{t},X_{g}} )} = {{{\mathbb{E}}_{X_{t}}\lbrack {D_{\psi}( X_{t} )} \rbrack} - {{\mathbb{E}}_{X_{t{❘g}}^{\prime}}\lbrack {D_{\psi}( {G_{\theta}( {Z_{1}^{g},Z_{2}^{t}} )} )} \rbrack}}} & (1)\end{matrix}$

Here, X_(t) is data of the target domain speech DB 10 of the targettask, and X_(g) is data of the large-capacity speech DB 20 of thegeneral domain.

FIG. 4 is pseudocode illustrating the overall process of the trainingstep of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 4 , θ and ϕ are the parameters of a variationalautoencoder (VAE) for disentangling attributes, which are trained in thepretraining step illustrated in FIG. 1 , and ψ is the initial value of adiscriminator.

X_(t), which is the target domain speech DB of the target task, andX_(g), which is the large-capacity speech DB of the general domain, aresampled separately and constitute a single mini-batch, and training isperformed.

X_(t)′, Z₁ ^(t), and Z₂ ^(t), and X_(g)′, Z₁ ^(g), and Z₂ ^(g) arelatent variables having disentangled attributes and generated signalsacquired from an attribute-disentanglement variational autoencoder dVAEto which X_(t) and X_(g) are respectively input.

Subsequently, the values of the loss functions of the encoder, thedecoder, and the discriminator are calculated by receiving X_(t) andX_(g) as input, and the parameters of the respective component systemsare updated using the last three equations in FIG. 4 .

Here, a stochastic gradient descent algorithm may be used for theprocess of updating the parameters of the system, and various otheralgorithms for updating the parameters may be used.

FIG. 5 is a view conceptually illustrating a data augmentation step in amethod for data augmentation according to an embodiment of the presentinvention.

Referring to FIG. 5 , the attributes of speech are substituted andcombined using the VAE for attribute disentanglement, which is trainedusing the structures illustrated in FIGS. 2 and 3 , whereby data isaugmented.

The latent variables Z₁+Z₂, which are acquired using transcriptioninformation by maintaining content attributes configured with the phonesequence of refined speech corpus acquirable in large quantities, andwhich are acquired by substituting other attributes from speech data ina sparse data domain matching the target task, are input to the decoder,whereby training speech data of the target task may be significantlyaugmented.

Here, the attributes excluding the content attributes may includeenvironment information, such as a channel and ambient noise, anddistinct phonation information of a speaker using the correspondingservice, such as an accent, a tone, a rhythm, a speech tempo, and thelike.

That is, using the encoder 510 of the VAE, which goes through thepretraining and training steps, data of the target domain speech DB 10and data of the large-capacity speech DB 20 are input, and latentvariables corresponding to the respective types of data are output.

Subsequently, data is generated using the decoder 520 of the VAE, whichgoes through the pretraining and training steps, and the data may bestored in an augmented target domain speech DB 30.

Here, the decoder of the VAE may augment data using the latent variableZ₂ generated based on the data of the target domain speech DB 10 and thelatent variable Z₁ generated based on the data of the large-capacityspeech DB 20.

FIG. 6 is a view illustrating the configuration of a computer systemaccording to an embodiment.

The apparatus for data augmentation according to an embodiment may beimplemented in a computer system 600 including a computer-readablerecording medium.

The computer system 600 may include one or more processors 610, memory630, a user-interface input device 640, a user-interface output device650, and storage 660, which communicate with each other via a bus 620.Also, the computer system 600 may further include a network interface670 connected to a network 680. The processor 610 may be a centralprocessing unit or a semiconductor device for executing a program orprocessing instructions stored in the memory 630 or the storage 660. Thememory 630 and the storage 660 may be storage media including at leastone of a volatile medium, a nonvolatile medium, a detachable medium, anon-detachable medium, a communication medium, and an informationdelivery medium. For example, the memory 630 may include ROM 631 or RAM632.

The apparatus for data augmentation according to an embodiment of thepresent invention includes one or more processors and executable memoryfor storing at least one program executed by the one or more processors,and the at least one program may pretrain latent variables using firstdata corresponding to target speech and second data corresponding togeneral speech, train data augmentation parameters by receiving thefirst data and the second data as input, and augment target data usingthe first data and the second data through the pretrained latentvariables and the trained parameters.

Here, the at least one program may perform training such that theencoder of a variational autoencoder infers the latent variables usingthe first data and the second data and such that the decoder of thevariational autoencoder receives the latent variables and generatesinput data.

The variational autoencoder is a generative model, and the generativemodel is a model that generates new data using a value that is sampledin the same distribution as the actual distribution of training datawhen the training data is given.

Here, the latent variables may include a first latent variablecorresponding to content attributes of speech and a second latentvariable corresponding to environment information of speech.

Here, the at least one program may train the data augmentationparameters using a structure in which a generative adversarial networkis added to the variational autoencoder.

Here, the at least one program may generate first output through thevariational autoencoder by receiving the first data, generate secondoutput through the decoder by receiving the second latent variablecorresponding to the first data and the first latent variablecorresponding to the second data, and train the data augmentationparameters by making a discriminator differentiate between the firstoutput and the second output.

Here, the at least one program may train the data augmentationparameters using a first loss function corresponding to the encoder, asecond loss function corresponding to the decoder, and a third lossfunction corresponding to the discriminator.

Here, the at least one program may update the parameters based on thevalues of the first to third loss functions.

Here, a stochastic gradient descent algorithm may be used for theprocess of updating the parameters, and various other algorithms forupdating the parameters may be used.

Here, the parameters may include a first parameter corresponding to theencoder, a second parameter corresponding to the decoder, and a thirdparameter corresponding to the discriminator.

According to the present invention, data of a sparse data domain, inwhich it is difficult to collect speech data, may be generated throughend-to-end learning for attribute disentanglement-generation.

Also, according to the present invention, the performance of speechrecognition may be improved through data augmentation for a service inwhich it is difficult to collect a large amount of speech data.

Specific implementations described in the present invention areembodiments and are not intended to limit the scope of the presentinvention. For conciseness of the specification, descriptions ofconventional electronic components, control systems, software, and otherfunctional aspects thereof may be omitted. Also, lines connectingcomponents or connecting members illustrated in the drawings showfunctional connections and/or physical or circuit connections, and maybe represented as various functional connections, physical connections,or circuit connections that are capable of replacing or being added toan actual device. Also, unless specific terms, such as “essential”,“important”, or the like, are used, the corresponding components may notbe absolutely necessary.

Accordingly, the spirit of the present invention should not be construedas being limited to the above-described embodiments, and the entirescope of the appended claims and their equivalents should be understoodas defining the scope and spirit of the present invention.

What is claimed is:
 1. A method for data augmentation, comprising:pretraining latent variables using first data corresponding to targetspeech and second data corresponding to general speech; training dataaugmentation parameters by receiving the first data and the second dataas input; and augmenting target data using the first data and the seconddata through the pretrained latent variables and the trained parameters.2. The method of claim 1, wherein pretraining the latent variablesincludes inferring, by an encoder of a variational autoencoder, latentvariables using the first data and the second data; and performing, by adecoder of the variational autoencoder, training so as to generate inputdata by receiving the latent variables as input.
 3. The method of claim2, wherein the latent variables include a first latent variablecorresponding to content attributes of speech data; and a second latentvariable corresponding to environment information of speech data.
 4. Themethod of claim 3, wherein training the data augmentation parameterscomprises performing training using a structure in which a generativeadversarial network is added to the variational autoencoder.
 5. Themethod of claim 4, wherein training the data augmentation parametersincludes generating first output through the variational autoencoder byreceiving the first data as input; generating second output through thedecoder by receiving the second latent variable corresponding to thefirst data and the first latent variable corresponding to the seconddata; and differentiating, by a discriminator, the first output and thesecond output from each other.
 6. The method of claim 5, whereinaugmenting the target data comprises augmenting the target data throughthe decoder by receiving the second latent variable corresponding to thefirst data and the first latent variable corresponding to the seconddata.
 7. The method of claim 6, wherein training the data augmentationparameters comprises training the parameters using a first loss functioncorresponding to the encoder, a second loss function corresponding tothe decoder, and a third loss function corresponding to thediscriminator.
 8. The method of claim 7, wherein the parameters includea first parameter corresponding to the encoder, a second parametercorresponding to the decoder, and a third parameter corresponding to thediscriminator.
 9. The method of claim 3, wherein the environmentinformation of the speech data includes information about at least oneof a channel, noise, an accent, a tone, a rhythm, and a speech tempo ofa speaker.
 10. An apparatus for data augmentation, comprising: one ormore processors; and executable memory for storing at least one programexecuted by the one or more processors, wherein the at least one programis configured to pretrain latent variables using first datacorresponding to target speech and second data corresponding to generalspeech; train data augmentation parameters by receiving the first dataand the second data as input; and augment target data using the firstdata and the second data through the pretrained latent variables and thetrained parameters.
 11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the at leastone program performs training such that an encoder of a variationalautoencoder infers latent variables using the first data and the seconddata and such that a decoder of the variational autoencoder generatesinput data by receiving the latent variables as input.
 12. The apparatusof claim 11, wherein the latent variables include a first latentvariable corresponding to content attributes of speech data; and asecond latent variable corresponding to environment information ofspeech data.
 13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein the at least oneprogram trains the parameters using a structure in which a generativeadversarial network is added to the variational autoencoder.
 14. Theapparatus of claim 13, wherein the at least one program trains theparameters by generating first output through the variationalautoencoder receiving the first data as input, generating second outputthrough the decoder receiving the second latent variable correspondingto the first data and the first latent variable corresponding to thesecond data, and making a discriminator differentiate between the firstoutput and the second output.
 15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein theat least one program augments the target data through the decoder byreceiving the second latent variable corresponding to the first data andthe first latent variable corresponding to the second data as input. 16.The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the at least one program trains theparameters using a first loss function corresponding to the encoder, asecond loss function corresponding to the decoder, and a third lossfunction corresponding to the discriminator.
 17. The apparatus of claim16, wherein the parameters include a first parameter corresponding tothe encoder, a second parameter corresponding to the decoder, and athird parameter corresponding to the discriminator.
 18. The apparatus ofclaim 12, wherein the environment information of the speech dataincludes information about at least one of a channel, noise, an accent,a tone, a rhythm, and a speech tempo of a speaker.